spiel
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And meaningful progress turns out to be much harder than simply refashioning an exhibit or a docent’s spiel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
Upon landing, the flight attendant’s voice rang over the intercom to give us the usual spiel as our aircraft made its way to the jet bridge.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2026
Mr. Brady pulled off Don Profondo’s patter song “Medaglie incomparabili,” a tongue-twisting list of precious objects, as an auctioneer’s spiel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2025
"The spiel that I'm reading from people saying how off it we are. We won two games on the bounce and you're upset about it, I don't get it."
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2025
Before I was half through my spiel, the last person was walking away.
From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli
Wang now spends his time trying to help other victims of similar spiels.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
The playoff music, meant to signal winners to wrap up their spiels, began playing more than halfway into Brody’s speech.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2025
The stray references in these spiels are still hot, such as the one to “John Lovitz” and “SNL when it was good.”
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2024
They are suckers for the spiels of the young because they believe only the young can perceive the next new thing.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 16, 2022
"What kind of spiels do you give 'em?" she inquired with growing interest.
From Polly of the Circus by Margaret Mayo
Moses sipped, while his team spieled tasting notes that reminded me of a Shel Silverstein poem.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
"You can't lose," spieled a full-page ad by Doubleday & Co. in the New York Times Book Review.
From Time Magazine Archive
One source of exuberance is that, rather than seeming sung or danced or chanted, a lot of production numbers seem spieled or shilled; they have a contagious carnival air, a ballyhoo rhythm.
From Time Magazine Archive
So Robbins went to the production brass of ABC, and spieled out a scenario.
From Time Magazine Archive
A clipped, insinuating voice spieled words whose meaning I couldn't catch and I was about to pass on when I saw the boy.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
After spieling off a few tips about grip and stance, he belts out a few balls.
From Time Magazine Archive
With more than 850 photographs and drawings, Phillips' documentary spews images at double-quick newsreel speed while spieling commentary at the tempo of a tobacco auctioneer.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the going is easy, he is the spieling image of his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was such a cinch that Merritt, who looked after the snake while I did the spieling and sold tickets on the front, commenced to get worried for fear we should lose him.
From Side Show Studies by Oliver Herford
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